My AidPods Pro became unusable after ~2 years. NC had some overcorrection issue I guess, created this loud crackling sound when it tried to cancel out a noise.
Rob Walling is solid and has a great reputation among SaaS founders, particularly those who choose to self-fund their companies rather than go the VC route.
He's been running a great event for bootstrapped founders called MicroConf. It's legit.
If you look at the endorsements for the book (Peldi, Derek Sivers, Patrick Campbell, Courtland Allen...) you'll see that they're as real as it gets.
Jason Cohen wrote the foreword for the book. (He founded WPEngine, one of the largest Wordpress hosting companies, with more than 1,000 employees, and before that SmartBear which got acquired for around $2 billion.)
If you're curious, you can also check out Startups For The Rest of Us, where he's been releasing new episodes for more than 10 years. I think that's one of the best ways to get a feel for whether he's someone you'd want to learn from.
This tells the story of Eric Sun, who (among other things) built Facebook's knowledge graph. He got diagnosed with a brain tumor, quit tech, and decided to pursue his life-long dream of playing the violin.
I think there's a lot you can criticize about this site. The suggestions are often questionable, and there's quite a few very common adjectives for which there are no suggestions at all ("delicious" for example yields "not yet added"). That said, the value of this site imho is it's simplicity, and that it focuses you to think about your use of the word "very", and how you can express ideas better.
I’ve always wondered about this! That being said, the answer provided still seems somewhat of a “here’s our best guess”—of course this can be said about most answers, but this just seems particularly far on the “just a good guess” side of the spectrum, rather than a more substantiated theory.
Also consider looking into Zone 2 training. Here's what I do: 1h of low-level cardio a day.
Just to the point where I can have a conversation with someone, where I can still breathe through the nose. Surprisingly, at the end of this, I'm still soaked in sweat, but I don't actually feel exhausted or as if I'm pushing myself very hard during the exercise. At the end of the day though I sleep like a rock. I typically listen to some audiobook or podcast, which gives me something to look forward to and makes the time pass more enjoyable.
I heard about it on the Tim Ferriss podcast (the episode with Rich Roll—what a silly name, but the guy is cool), and then looked the subject up. Peter Attia covers it super in-depth, but I found this the most useful read for anyone who just wants to give this a try: https://www.artofmanliness.com/health-fitness/fitness/zone-2...
I'm having the exact same experience, also with Thai funny enough, and the best way to describe it to me is like this: It feels like when I was a small kid learning to read for the first time. You see a bus driving by, and you now recognize a few letters, and then you mentally try to "compress" the letters into a word and suddenly: Woop! This bus is headed for Minburi! There's a little jolt of joy in that moment of recognition.
Curious, why are you learning Thai?
Question for all those who find his reviews valuable: What is it about them that you so value? I've gone through a few, and they're rather short and nondescript. I can get a much better sense of whether a book is of interest to me from an Amazon page.
Love a behind-the-scenes peak of a creator like this one, it's fascinating to see. But yeah, $5k / month for the amount of work and talent that went into this seems disproportionate, but then I could also see this growing exponentially, where if he keeps at it, it will make ridiculous amounts of money that's just as, if not more disproportionate to effort invested, except this time in his favor. Which is what I wish for him.